007. Total chaos
Convenience store owner (Jin). No, he’s already the owner. Anyway, to me, the convenience store was a place of dreams and hope.
Of course, I fully know that there will be criticism and condemnation. It will be hard to meet the truth, but the truth is, the truth is, the customer is a real customer and I want to grab him by the collar. In particular, I cannot forget the person who came to refund the triangle kimbap I bought a month ago because it was past its expiration date.
Still, the convenience store was an attractive enough space.
First of all, discarded food is the best.
Ah, I can’t stand it. I can’t stand this.
Triangular kimbap and sandwiches that were thrown away. And lunch boxes and milk. Drinks. Bread and sausages that had to be refrigerated. String kimbap and even hamburgers.
The three convenience stores I frequently visit have opening hours of 10AM, 2PM, and 3AM respectively, so if I talk to the owner, I can spend the whole day just scrapping. This is also secretly great if you have many local convenience stores.
And the distribution of Zephrin within the game D/Z SAGA was better than expected. It didn’t cost much to buy one potion anywhere in the town.
However, the price of the healing potion is 10,000 Lin per bottle.
Are you crazy? Who would pay that much for a healer? This game has a technique where you can clear a dungeon with potions, so if there is no healer, you can clear it with a potion. But that is a method of clearing the dungeon when you have 100 healing potions in the game. If you have 10,000 healing potions, you can’t even think about it.
Those Zephrins are growing strong.
Anyway, when I came to Zephrine, I reached out to the convenience store because there were several accounts.
First of all, it was discarded food. And the monthly income was about 3 million lin.
I thought that if business was going well there, I could hire three part-time workers for 800,000 rin a week, run the store on the weekends, and make about 500,000 rin a month, and that would be enough. I could also do a side job on the side.
But, there is nothing to sell.
Midas’ Hand only produces basic weapons and armor, but it seems that high-end equipment is not produced very often.
Yggdrasil is at the level of a tree club. Are you guys crazy? But they still sell fruit seeds pretty well. I like that.
The magic merchants deal in good horse regeneration and healing potions. If you mix a healing potion with water and spray it on a plant, and then turn on the good horse regeneration, the plant will grow quickly. Is that science or magic?
Anyway, this distribution network of Zephrine is total garbage. There is no way to save it.
therefore.
In a world where people don’t even live off of things they take from the head office, where the concept of a convenience store doesn’t even exist, and where the world has regressed to a medieval level, I become the only convenience store manager.
A convenience store that cannot order items.
Convenience stores that must display their products as home-made products.
Wow. Wow, really···.
“Isn’t it great?”
hmm.
It seems really great.
***
“Well. Hehehe.”
“Eve?
Student Council Room. Yves von Lohengrin was leisurely looking through his paperwork when he heard the secretary call him. The secretary tilted his head and sniffed the scent of the student council room.
“what’s the matter?”
“Doesn’t the student council room smell strangely sweet?”
“···How could that be?”
“Is that so…? It smells like fruit.”
“Haha. That’s a strange thing to say. Then it means that someone brought snacks into the student council room.”
“···Right? That can’t be true.”
“Well, you know how much of a luxury snack is at Zephrine, right?”
“Right…?”
The clerk stared at Eve, but Eve’s mouth did not move at all.
Eve also had her own concerns. She could just let it melt in her mouth and eat it, but this top-quality candy has such an excellent fragrance that it wouldn’t be easy to do that.
However, it was difficult to swallow it right away, so Eve eventually closed her eyes tightly and apologized to the candy in her mouth for a moment.
Crack.
“?”
“What is it?”
“···No. It’s nothing.”
Eve shoved the broken candy down her throat between her molars and acted as if she didn’t know the secretary, who tilted his head and returned to his work. She was relieved that she hadn’t been caught, and apologized to the candy for not being able to enjoy a long life.
However, the secretary is also the type that goes crazy over sweets. Especially, people who use their brains a lot are crazy about sweets.
But candy is a luxury item and a luxury good.
Eve nodded, mentally counting the number of candies she had taken from Wolfram. Seven. There are still plenty left. If you eat one a day, you can last a week.
I don’t know where Wolfram got all this candy, but if he uses it all up, his finances will be ruined.
“Let’s just keep you alive for a little while. When you eat all this candy and you’ve destroyed all your assets, that’s when you’re finished. Wolfram.”
Eve secretly put a piece of candy in her mouth.
“lol.”
There are now 6 eggs left.
The end is just around the corner.
***
“What should I prepare for the next seedling?”
The convenience store in the 8th magic ball area didn’t even have a sign yet, but it still had one thing in common: a vegetable garden.
Why is there a vegetable garden outside the entrance? Is this really a convenience store, or is it a heart-pounding country life?
But Wolfram doesn’t have the stamina to enjoy such a rural life. Anyway, I planted the fruit seedlings I received from Yggdrasil, sprinkled a nutrient mixed with water and a healing potion on them, and played the good horse music box.
【You are a good boy.】
【Cheer up. You can do it!】
【This lecture is empty!】
【The professor gave us less homework!】
【You will get your PhD this semester! Fighting!】
Good words music box.
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It is the embodiment of pseudoscience gone mad.
Do you remember that experiment where they said nice things to onions and they grew bigger?
When I saw it as a child, it was such a stupid experiment that I thought, does that mean onions have the brain to understand Korean?
Of course it was pseudoscience. It’s like saying that water knows the answer.
But when magic is mixed in, it really does ‘good things’.
This self-hypnosis happiness circuit music box, which was originally used as a mind control element for the Ministry of Magic graduate students, actually had an Easter egg where if you played it to a plant, it would grow ‘bigger and tastier’.
And I ordered this good music box through my graduate students, and they are using it with great acclaim.
Pick the fruit, mash it, strain it, boil it down, and mix it with edible slime.
After that, I hardened it into a mold and wrapped it one by one with cut paper.
Since this one pill costs ten thousand won, considering my labor costs, there is no better side job than this. I’ll finish preparing the candy for tomorrow with this.
“Huh···hee···hoo.”
Making money is fun, but I’m going to die like this.
“Please hold on, you damned body.”
If so, we can take over the world.
I lay on the floor of the convenience store, shaking, and praying to the world.
Even if I had just 2 or 3 f*cking stamina points…!
“···What are you doing now?”
At that moment, the convenience store door opened and someone came rushing in.
He’s a guest. Damn it. He’s the guest of honor today, and I have to wait for him while lying down.
“I don’t know who you are, but I don’t think I can do business because of this. I’m sorry.”
“No. So… why are you doing that?”
“It’s because I’m exhausted.”
“······Shall I help you stand up?”
It’s a voice I’ve heard many times, somewhere.
······Aila?
I swallowed hard.
If you get hit by one Black Spear while you’re defenseless like this, won’t you go straight to the One-Queue?
Damn, I’m shivering from the frustration of not being able to move.
But soon, I was caught in Ayla’s grasp and lifted up affectionately.
“are you okay?”
“······It’s okay.”
And then, Baby Wolfram collapsed on the sofa, and Ayla sat facing me.
“I got some help, so what brings you here?”
“···Haha. I came here without realizing it because I was impressed by your plan.”
“Oh, I see. I see. Operation. Yes.”
“Yes. That’s right. That’s right. It was a good plan.”
“···So, that’s it?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“okay.”
“Hehehe.”
We looked at each other and laughed.
Yeah, operation.
······What is that?
***
Luckily, before I could ask, Ayla smiled elegantly and started making funny noises.
Ayla, the witch of ambition, listed my actions one by one.
“I heard that you had the students of the Magic Graduate School as your first customers. Wow. That’s incredible. They say you’re a good person.”
“I see.”
“Yes. They are the ones who only focus on the project that the professor gives them. They are the ones who have to risk their lives for 2 million won a month. They have no interest in how society works, and they only move when the professor calls them. If you get a good evaluation from these people, it will be a great help to your path.”
“I see.”
“Yes. You have now established good connections with the next generation of scholars in this country.”
“I see.”
“Haha. Seriously, you’ve been talking like you have no interest since a moment ago. Okay, I get it. Your ambitions… are not limited to this, are they?”
“I see. …I see. You know that. That’s amazing.”
I almost continued answering in a stream of consciousness way without realizing it. If I did that, I would get stabbed in the stomach with a black spear. Seriously.
Anyway, when I admitted it, Ayla smiled and nodded.
“Who do you think I am?”
“Lady of Ambition. Darling of Dark Magic.”
“Haha. Alright. Wolfram. As long as you don’t let me down, this place is now yours in name and deed. I vouch for it on the landlord’s behalf.”
“Thank you very much.”
From the tenant’s perspective, there is nothing wrong with having a good relationship with the building owner.
“Can you clear up one question for me instead?”
“what?”
“How did you get the favor of graduate students? They don’t care about anything other than graduation, assignments, and papers. Is that an expensive question?”
Oh. That?
“Hmm. Not difficult.”
He stood up and handed Ayla an individually wrapped piece of candy.
“···What is this?”
“You’ll know once you open it and eat it.”
At my words, Ayla opened the paper wrapper and put the candy straight into her mouth. And then…
“······yes!”
“I guess you like it.”
He opened his eyes wide and looked at me with a strange shout.
“Ah, candy? This is something that would be worthy of being supplied to the royal family… No, it tastes even better, but how on earth…?”
“That is the secret method I used.”
“······Did you bring a lot of candy before you left? No. It’s not like you can call it a secret weapon in a limited way. Then, you either have the connections to make candy or···.”
As she muttered, I shook my head. I don’t know how far this misunderstanding will lead. If this continues, she’ll say something like, ‘You’re on friendly terms with the Imperial underground organization, so one day you’ll spread your wings of rebellion!’ It’s true.
Ambition is only a sheet of paper away from chuunibyou.
“It’s self-made.”
“···What did you say?”
“If you have the ingredients, you can make anything like this.”
“······Ha. I see. This is one of your ‘skills’.”
Don’t put an accent on the technique. It’s embarrassing to me. I remained silent, and Ayla nodded and continued speaking.
“I won’t ask for the recipe. … As long as you remain my fiancé and on my side. You will be of help to me.”
“Thanks for that.”
“Haha. I am the one who is happy. Wolfram. You have been thrown to the ends of hell, but you will soar higher than anyone else and spread your wings of rebellion.”
No.
That’s not true, really.
It’s usually like that, but hearing it in front of my eyes really makes me feel like this.
Ayla opened her hands with shining eyes.
“Is there anything you want from me?”
“···What do you wish for?”
“I want to give something back to you since you showed me such great things.”
“···hmm.”
I nodded. There is something I wish for. The most essential item for adventure.
“I need a map of the forest east of the Academy. There’s something to dig up there.”
“···Even with that, wouldn’t it be difficult with your physical strength? Should I assign someone to you?”
Thank you so much for your consideration, it brought tears to my eyes. Really.
“···It’s a secret.”
“I see. I understand. I’ll see what you do. I’ll bring the map back to you by tomorrow.”
As she said that, Ayla stood up from her seat, and I thought of the eastern forest.
I’m sorry, Ayla.
“There is an item that can be ‘hidden’ in the early part of the Eastern Forest.”
So, I can’t give this up.
Don’t I have to eat to live too?
